On Frozen Pond

[Joe Senzatimore]

The extreme cold in Bosque( minus 7 with 8 inches of snow) made for some tough shooting conditions . Not to mention that the frozen crane pools kept 99% of the birds away. Very few oportunities , but our group still had a blast and managed to produce some fine images.

800ISO F5.6 at 1/4000th
Cropped to pano for comp.

[Dave Leroy]

It is a dandy looking photo. It really shows what a tough life it can be for these birds. Lovely color and nice bit of fg to set the stage. Quite a bit of dof so must have been a shorter lense.

[Ofer Levy]

Beautiful and artisitc. Would look amazing as a large print.

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice work, it doesn't look that impressive at 800 pixels but at 1600 pixels and larger or when printed large I am sure it looks very nice. I like the mood

[gail bisson]

Really nice Joe. Beautiful colors. Has a dream like quality to it. This would look really nice over my fireplace!!
Gail

[Melissa Groo]

Fantastic atmosphere here, very evocative. Really gorgeously executed. Love everything about it.

[Grace Scalzo]

Wonderful, Joe. Great lighting and mood.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful mood, nicely captured. Agree it's a wall hanger. Congrats on visualizing and executing it.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Even though the temp and conditions were very winter-like I'd still be tempted to raise the colour temp a bit. Having said this, I love the image as presented, and I really like the tall grasses along the top left of the frame. If you have more room at right to prevent the right-most crane from standing so close to the edge that would be great.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Joe, small size does not do justice to this. great mood with all that mist and that light. those grasses in the BG really make a big difference. very well done.

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful image Joe. I love the light and color tones.